Ternopil: "If we had not been of the prefects,France would come to an end," the Honorary French prefect Jean Fabre
During a forum on the region, are devoted to decentralization as the basis of forming a new system of governance and local development, with special attention listening to the French honorary prefect, Professor, Institute of political studies of AIX-EN-Provence (Institut d'etudes Politiques) of Jean Fabre. He spoke fairly openly about the pros and cons of the prefects in his homeland. According to Jean Fabre, prefects appeared during the French revolution in 1789, when France was divided into 95 counties. At the head of each district was prefect, who had almost unlimited power. However, in 1982, made important changes to the Constitution, after which it began a major reform of decentralization of power. Since then, the prefects were only supervisors of observance by local governments of law. - Decentralized country is living through self-government, but this government needs to be strict control, said Jean Fabre. – This speaks directly 72nd article of the French Constitution: "the administrative-territorial formations of Republic the representative of the state, which represents the government, is responsible for national interests, administrative control and compliance with the law." Such representatives at the local level is the prefect. Jean Fabre told that in France the prefects in control of the most important decisions of local government, particularly those concerned with services, construction, public procurement, budget, and law enforcement agencies. Control are also subject to the decisions of local communities regarding the allocation for any purpose in excess of 10 thousand euros. - A decision by the local authority, is transferred to the Prefecture, and only after that it comes into effect, said Jean Fabre. Prefect checks the compliance of this decision the law, and if it considers that there is no match, it sends an email with suggestions to make to the solution of certain changes or even revoke it. If within two months, the local authority does not make edits to this decision, the prefect may apply to the court. But do it rarely because the Prefecture is not punitive, but primarily an Advisory body. So with 5 million annual cases where, in the opinion of the prefects, local authorities violate the laws of France, the court considered almost 50 thousand, that is about 0.1%. However, 80% of trials win it prefects. If the prefect loses the court, for him it is a huge shame and personal drama. After all, he represents the state and has no margin for error. Jean Fabre also noted that in France there are political parties who believe the work of the prefects unnecessary, because the facts of inconsistency of decisions of bodies of local self-government law, the first usually manifests not prefects, and the press. However, the Professor says prefects can be compared with video cameras, which record traffic violations – one of thousands. "But if you remove such cameras, the number of violations will increase tenfold. So if we didn't have prefects, France would come to an end," said Jean Fabre. In order to ensure the impartiality of the decisions of the prefects and reduce possible negative influence on them by the local authorities, every four years inspectors for compliance with the law transferred to other regions of the country. This was reported in the Ternopil regional state administrationÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
